Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-07
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SEED Leai win mahe tho tsulh OF the
Comisg Crcp p-rhs Admirers OF Ha-
vana s,icains to rhis variety.

he county, mon and boys, and In some In. |
stances women aud girls, have been busy
from morning until night setting out the
young plants 1, is estimated that fully
three -fousths, II not iour-ttths OF the entire
planting has been accomplished, aud that the
acreage by the end OF the planting season will
be fully as large IL not larger than last year.
The weather has been propitious and the
only complaints thus Tar heard are that the
cut worms are unusually numerous snd are
play ing havoc with the young plants
From interviews hsd with large number 1
OF planters from ail sections OF the county |
the lNTELLIGENCER learns that from two. |
thirds to three.fourtns of this years planting |
will be Of the seed leaf variety. Ask |
. planter why he prefers seed leaf to |
Havana seed, he will answer because 1t |
yields greater weight per acre, and because |
We find market for It." Ask him II 1t pays
to grow seed leaf for 8, 6 or : cents through,
he vii answer No." and II you ask him
why he will persist in growing it without a
profit he is apt to answer that no other agrt-
cuitursl crop In this county pays any better
A minority Of growers, however, stick
firmly to Havana seed some Of them b.
cause they were very successful in grow.
ing 1t, and received high prices for
1t and some others, though less fortunate
thus far. believe that Havana seed IL the
coming variety, and the only one that can at
all compete with Sumstrs for wrapper pur.
poses and that as nearly ell the Sumatra
recently impor' ID has had to pay a duty OF
20 cents inst sad of IS cent, as formerly, there
will be less OF it imported hereafter and
Havana seed will in great measure take is
place.
An extensive planter, who still holds his
crop Of 's5 Hsvans, said to the writer few
days ago that he was planting still larger
crop OF the same variety this year. lie
believes tina. owing to the scarcity and high
| price OF good wrappers there must be an
upward tendency In prices and further,
that with the expei ienCe growers have gair ei
In cultivating and handling the tobacco they
| will from year to year improve the quality OF
| their paintings. In The same line OF argument
Is the following which we clip from the
Edgerton, Wis, Reporter:
at will remain largely for New York and
| Wisconsin" remarks the Edgerton Reporter,
"to produce the Havana seed tobac 'os OF the
| 'Sj crop, and II IL doubtful II these states and
| all other sections will grow to exceed 10000
| to I5, 900 cases ss against over 2Co,OO cases
| each in the IS and 's6 crops. Such = de-
cline in the production of Havana seed eau
not but have q beneficial effect upon the
market value OF dome site wrapping tobsccos
| 1t can also be taken as hopeial sign fos the
grow ers who plant Havana the coming sea.
son. Before another crop can be grown and
put upon the market the old stock OF these
| tobsccos bids fair to De at sorbed, leaving q
| com mparativsy clear tisld to q very short
supply OF Havana seed wrappers. II these
conclusions prove true, as the writer Ia con-
| ddent they WILL there is q much brighter
| prospect ahead for the tobacco growers OF
| Wisconsin. Next to Sumatra, Havana seed
l IL the favorite wrapper. Fashion calls TOR a
smooth and glossy wrapper, and Havans
, | seed can only NIL the bill ss!de from the i'm
ported article. The only bar to good price:
for Havana wrappers is that not enough o
| the tine grades can bs obtained to fill thu
demand. II the farmers can produce a hn'
| crop OF this tobacco, Old time prices vii
4 | again be realized"
9 Local buyers and some foreign ones ar
still hunting up W hat is left OF the crop of -
Havana seed, . good deal of which is yet il
= | the hands OF growers. 1t would oe liftet
1 rapidly II the growers would consent to TAX
j. the price offered tor it by buyers, but thei
, offers appear to be tco low, or else the tobacc
, must DO very poor indeed.
Tho New York Market
| From the U. :. Tobacco J Journal.
Marke, for old, quiet, in fact very quiet
, | The sales OF cases by the "hundreds" appea
! | at long intervals only, while the transfers o
small parcels is the rule In duh marke
| like this the situation of the leaf seller Il
doubly exssperatiDg. The buyer is promi
nent by bis scarcity and exscting to a fault
| goods are returned without ado or compli
| ment, even often dumped uuceremoniously
on the sidewalk. And If there IL any thing IL
the lite of Q leaf dealer, which will make hin
| wish he was unborn, il when his sdewa l
| bears the weight of cases lust returned. In
new leaf, more sses OF HousatonIc are re
| ported; also several transfers OF New YOrt
state wrappers. The prices are kept rigor
| ously secret
Sumatrs-Much animation prevailed; (; th,
| sales reported run Up to 800 bsles. There Il
current rumor that the appraisers otic'
| this week did not pass but 30 bales at 3
cents, while everything else had to be paid
for at IS cents BE this AZ it may, prices
were no higher, and II - cents should pre-
vail, the Importation OF Sumatra will not bt
reduced to any psrceptioie degree.
Havana - Moderately active; sales 5Os
= bales at from 50 cents to 81 IL.
From the Tobacco Leaf.
a Cigar Lssf-The sales have bsen moderate
but more could haye been done If the &c
o baccos sought were available. Decoration
| Day was duly observed in the ma arket, anC
| this fact OF course, tended to diminish tht
volume OF Transfers. The new Leaf Is NOV
ing, and We hear OF q large prospective trans
action, and note another one OF fair msgni
] | tude. For export little is done, because thi
tobscco wsntsd abroad Is scarce and higi
here. OaiO, formerly freely shipped. is nov
, 10 demand for hOme manufacturing purpose
! on ac,ount OF the limited supply OF cneaI
Pennsylvania filters, aud also on account o
, | It's uS6iul qualities. we near OF recent sale
| OF 1t In Pennsylvania towns for cigar manu-
, | facturers' consumption.
; In May the sales Of all kinds reportet
| amounted to 4 S63 cases.
Hsvana-Filisrs were In moderate demand
with reported sales OF 400 bales at 6OsGgsl. 80
Sunstra-Ths new, OF which importation
!. % far have been very light, moves slowly
: | and the old now on hand oilers very poo
/. selections. Sales, go bales, q! from 81 70 I
81 so.
Late advices from Amsterdam, speaking q
|. the sale on May 25, say that the l6, SOB bale
y sold we're In average below the tobacco OF tn
. first "Einschreibung," aud that very littl
y tobacco OF the 35 cents duty class was offered
3 Some lots contained no 30 cents duty tobacc
: ct all
Gsns' Weekly Report.
: Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported tor tn
a ISTELLIaENCER by J. s. Cans Son 4 Co
4 tobacco brokers, No. l3l Water street, Ne,
;. York, for the week ending June 9, 1857 :
100 cases 1854, Dutch, p. +; 500 cases lSs
Dutch, sole; $50 cases 1881, 1852, iss
!. Pennsylvsnia, l26gl4c; l2s cssss Iss
. Pennsylvsnis, l2(gl5c 100 cases lSs
4 Pennsylvania Havana, so. Is, T; 100 case
Q 1885, Ohio, p &; $50 csses 1855, WiscOnsi
n Havana, 6lyscIs. Total, l,32s cases.
Ths rhilsdsiphis Msshst.
III Seed Lesf-Deslers are doing . modera
I, business in such grades OF cigar leaf A al